Feminists can sew!

[Momma_Halo]

Since I have started sewing I have found a lot of interesting hostility and even awe. I have admitted to a few women in college that I can sew, cook, and clean. OMG I might as well tell them that I am anti women's rights and all around brainless the way they were looking at me. 

Background of who I was before a mother. I was a women's rights leader in high school and constantly doing papers on the mistreatment of women not only in the U.S. but also in other countries.

I was the first person to challenge my government school when I saw things that were not right or when I felt there was need for improvement. I was not a woman you messed with. Even when I was abused by my ex I didn't stick around for very long. Of course it took a year and a half plus some planning that felt like mission impossible!

So on to now, I decided to learn how to cook when I was young because for one my babysitter ditched us kids when I was 7 or 8 years old. I had two siblings who didn't know how to cook and needed someone to feed them. I burnt my hands on that stove but I could cook like a pro by the age of 9. I took care of a house and cooking while my step mom and my father were at work during the summer. We never told my mother for fear she wouldn't let us go back to see my Dad.

And just this year I learned how to sew and make clothing and anything I have a pattern for. The way I see it is if I don't have to depend on anyone then I have my freedom.

I don't depend on stores to have something cute on hand. I make them myself and how I want it and fit specifically for me. And even when we don't have money for something I can make it. Like I need a new bedroom set so I am going to look for a pattern to make it myself.

Just because I know how to sew, cook, and clean doesn't mean I am making women look bad. It just means that it is something I like to do and feel it is important for me to do. My husband also helps me cook and clean... my son is learning how to sew, cook, clean, and garden (yeah I do that too). Because when he leaves my house when he is eighteen I don't want him to feel like he needs a woman to take care of him. I want him to find a partner because he wants to and she is his equal.

Not to mention if he should ever go through money issues know what to do in tough times. Like if he can't afford new pants he knows how to stitch them up. Or if food is scarce he can grow them in a pot off the back of his balcony (if he lives in an apartment) or in the windows. He will know how to clean his house so it won't be so embarrassing. And when he is living on his own he will make his own dinner instead of depending on fast food.

But that is my belief and I don't expect others to share it just respect it.